Jörg Eigendorf

Jörg Eigendorf is the Chief Sustainability Officer of Deutsche Bank. In this role, he is responsible for the group-wide sustainability strategy and its implementation, reporting to the CEO. He joined Deutsche Bank in 2016 as Global Head of Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility, which included the responsibility for the area of sustainability. Since then, he has played a key role in shaping the bank’s sustainability strategy. In September 2022, he handed over his duties as Global Head of Communications to focus exclusively on sustainability as the bank’s first Chief Sustainability Officer. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he was a member of the Editorial Board of the WELT media group from 2010 and led the investigative team as chief reporter. Prior to that, he held several senior positions as Economic and Financial Editor of the WELT group in Frankfurt and Berlin. In the 1990s, Jörg reported from Moscow as a business correspondent for the German weekly DIE ZEIT. Jörg attended the Cologne School of Journalism and studied economics at the University of Cologne. He has received several journalism awards and was elected “Business Journalist of the Year” in Germany in 2012.